Great Lakes Cassava Initiative: Editorial Photography : Carl D. Walsh Photographer: Portrait Photography : Natural History Photographer

A Cassava plant is cloned in a Kenyan laboratory to create disease tolerant seed.

Cassava plants are cloned in a Kenyan laboratory to create disease tolerant seed.

Diseased cassava plants, like this one, have caused serious declines in East African crop yields.

A Kenyan woman digs cassava roots in field.

Cassava roots, are greatly stunted and rendered inedible as a result of disease pandemic.

Congolese beneficiaries await the distribution of disease tolerant cassava seed from GLCI.

A young Kenyan boy makes a thumb print on the log sheet before receiving cassava seed from GLCI.

A Congolese village leader checks vouchers before presenting GLCI beneficiaries with cassava seed.

A happy Congolese woman slips beneath the twine to acquire cassava seed.

Cassava seed is distributed to a happy GLCI beneficiary in the Dem. Rep. of Congo.

A GLCI beneficiary walks away with a bundle of cassava stems, to cut, transplant and produce a new crop.

GLCI beneficiaries walk away with bundles of cassava stems, to cut, transplant and produce new crops.

GLCI beneficiaries (L) walk away with bundles of cassava stems, to cut, transplant and produce new crops. Fermented cassava root (R) is ground in a roadside mill in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Congolese cassava farmers transport leaves, on a bicycle more than 30 miles to a Goma market.

GLCI Beneficiaries in Western Kenya enjoy cassava produced from GLCI seed.